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Post by kooch on Mar 16, 2022 16:55:06 GMT -6
We are going to end up in a rental farmhouse for at least a year before we build at Nassau Deluxe. There is no garage. Im considering one or two of those portable pipe and tarp things as a two year solution.
Anybody have any experience with these? Are they worthless flimsy piles of shit? I have only just started looking at them online.
I could just grow a set and leave them outside. But I’ve grown very accustomed to parking inside.
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Post by caveman on Mar 16, 2022 18:54:07 GMT -6
No experience with those flimsy piles of shit, but I do notice more and more of them around, look like they last a year or two, might be perfect for you.
I do have experience with some heavier duty stuff:
Set these two up last summer in a relatives backyard. They are typically boathouses on Lake Minnetonka, slightly strengthened for land use. The one with the truck is 12x16. With the camper 16'x24'. I haven't heard of any winter damage to these.
Not exactly cheap. I will be trying to put another used one together this spring to sell.
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Post by Sandbur on Mar 17, 2022 4:29:56 GMT -6
No experience with those flimsy piles of shit, but I do notice more and more of them around, look like they last a year or two, might be perfect for you.
I do have experience with some heavier duty stuff:
Set these two up last summer in a relatives backyard. They are typically boathouses on Lake Minnetonka, slightly strengthened for land use. The one with the truck is 12x16. With the camper 16'x24'. I haven't heard of any winter damage to these.
Not exactly cheap. I will be trying to put another used one together this spring to sell.
. I see a trailer from the town where I went to high school. Some farmers had those sheds for temporary cattle housing Cheap ones tended to get tipped over with high winds if in exposed areas. The larger, more expensive ones held up better. Kooch, will you have lots of wind exposure?
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Post by kooch on Mar 17, 2022 5:28:51 GMT -6
There is a grove that’ll block some of the N and NW wind but it’s not a great one.
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Post by smsmith on Mar 17, 2022 7:42:33 GMT -6
Our "good" vehicles get parked in the garage. Our daily driver/grocery getter pickup gets parked outside. Pretty stupid when I think about it since we end up running the beater to warm up before leaving in the winter.
If it was me (I'm a cheap bastard) I'd deal with outside parking for a year or two. I suppose I may change my mind if I had a really nice vehicle that I wanted to protect from the elements.
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Post by benmnwi on Mar 17, 2022 11:27:33 GMT -6
We had a strong wind come through this December and it turned a bunch of those semi-portable garage things into pretzels. Every time I've been in South Dakota the wind is always blowing, so I'd be a little worried about wind damage.
If I had your Lamborghini I would probably come up with a garage solution, but my '08 Impala with deer damage gets parked outside year round.
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Post by smsmith on Mar 17, 2022 11:37:37 GMT -6
We had a strong wind come through this December and it turned a bunch of those semi-portable garage things into pretzels. Every time I've been in South Dakota the wind is always blowing, so I'd be a little worried about wind damage. If I had your Lamborghini I would probably come up with a garage solution, but my '08 Impala with deer damage gets parked outside year round. I'm sure it's worse in eastern SoDak than it is here, but the wind here sure is nuts to me. Anything that isn't anchored down really good is going to get blown over sooner or later.
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Post by kooch on Mar 17, 2022 18:13:10 GMT -6
I’m leaning towards just plugging them in and dealing with them parked outside. I’ve got remote starters on both vehicles so I can warm them up without leaving the house.
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Post by Reagan on Mar 17, 2022 20:15:49 GMT -6
Didn’t you have a barn that could be used for parking?
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Post by kooch on Mar 18, 2022 15:12:08 GMT -6
I’m living in a rental up there way for a while. No barn. No garage.
But yeah, plenty of garage at Nassau deluxe
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